Posted in ANECDOTES on January 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I was sent this in an e-mail last year. Thought you might enjoy it too.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen […]
Posted in ANECDOTES on January 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The other day I spoke at a conference, to 1400 members of an international organisation. I arrived the day before to do a technical run through. As it turns out the crew were world-class and the run through was very straightforward.
The next day I arrived and went backstage, met the crew and did a final […]
Posted in ANECDOTES on January 19th, 2007 No Comments »
As some of the regular readers of my newsletter will be aware, I have decided to run a two day retreat before the end of April this year. The weekend will be free, with attendees having to cover all their own costs.
I have done this for two reasons, firstly I want to change the […]
I have to admit that once I have a book published it would be fair to say I never read the book again. I think the fact is that I have been living with it 24/7 for months and in the edit and re-write process, I must reread it 6 or 7 times.
Sometimes people will […]
Posted in ANECDOTES on January 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
I went for a long, early morning cycle around 6am today and for some reason as I was thinking about the big things I wanted to achieve this year, (apart from the usual list of finding the cure for cancer, banishing Third World Debt, losing 15lbs and buying Microsoft for cash) I kept coming back […]
Posted in ANECDOTES on January 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
After the quiet period of Christmas and New Year, I find myself looking at my 'to do' list which has doubled in the first four working days of 2007. It is easy at times to think that we can give it all up and run a beach bar in a tropical island. In fact […]